----Source: 1891 History of Clark & Jackson Co., Wis., pg. 327:

LARY DRINKWINE, of section 20, Warner Township, Clark County, and a pioneer of this town, was born in Paris, France, May 1, 1821, the son of George Drinkwine, deceased, a native of London, England. He brought his family to Montreal, Canada, in 1823, where Larry was brought up on St. Paul'street, block No. 24, where the father kept a tavern. After reaching maturity, Mr. Drinkwine began farming in Canada, which he continued until the fall of 1854, in which year he came to Sheboygan County on the steamer Lady Elgin, which sprung a leak on the way, and Mr. Drinkwine and others were obliged to pump water. They finally landed in the harbor with no loss of life or property. Our subject first worked on a farm in the vicinity of Sheboygan until 1861, when he enlisted in the late war, in Company B, Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served three and a half years, participating in the battles of Mechanicsville, Missouri, Pilot Knob, Iuka, Coffeeville, Holly Springs, Corinth, Pine Bluff, charge on Vicksburg, siege of Vicksburg, Red River campaign, Guntown, Mississippi, and others. He was wounded three times: first on the forehead by a piece of shell, on the return from the Red River campaign next through the left thigh in the charge on Vicksburg, and again in the left ankle at Guntown, the ball striking the bone and passing into the back part of the leg, where it still remains. He still suffers from the effects of these injuries.

After the war Mr. Drinkwine returned to Sheboygan and worked on a farm until 1867, when he came to this county, settling in Warner Township, which he has ever since made his home. In 1870 he settled on his present farm of eighty acres, forty-five of which is cleared. There were no roads here at that time, and Mr. Drinkwine often walked to and from Neillsville, camping in the woods on his way, and one time carried fifty pounds of flour on his back. He would often put the flour on his neck and swim the river, as he could not always get across on the boat.

He was married in 1851 to Clarissa Tedrow, a native of Sherbrook, Canada, and they have had seven children, five of whom are now living: Lary, George, John, Villa and Violet. Villa married Otto Duell, of this city, and they have one child--Edward.